Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

A Ciarrocchi, F Tagarelli, A Avsar, A Kis - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of
materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach …

Moiré heterostructures as a condensed-matter quantum simulator

DM Kennes, M Claassen, L Xian, A Georges, AJ Millis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their
many remarkable experimental properties and the promise that they hold for realizing …

2D heterostructures for ubiquitous electronics and optoelectronics: principles, opportunities, and challenges

PV Pham, SC Bodepudi, K Shehzad, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A grand family of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures have been
discovered through the extensive experimental and theoretical efforts of chemists, material …

[HTML][HTML] WS2 moiré superlattices derived from mechanical flexibility for hydrogen evolution reaction

L Xie, L Wang, W Zhao, S Liu, W Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The discovery of moiré superlattices (MSLs) opened an era in the research of 'twistronics'.
Engineering MSLs and realizing unique emergent properties are key challenges. Herein, we …

Excitons in semiconductor moiré superlattices

D Huang, J Choi, CK Shih, X Li - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Semiconductor moiré superlattices represent a rapidly developing area of engineered
photonic materials and a new platform to explore correlated electron states and quantum …

Structure, properties and applications of two‐dimensional hexagonal boron nitride

S Roy, X Zhang, AB Puthirath… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) has emerged as a strong candidate for two‐dimensional
(2D) material owing to its exciting optoelectrical properties combined with mechanical …

Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

Y Tang, L Li, T Li, Y Xu, S Liu, K Barmak, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The Hubbard model, formulated by physicist John Hubbard in the 1960s, is a simple
theoretical model of interacting quantum particles in a lattice. The model is thought to …

Correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of moiré superlattices

Y Xu, S Liu, DA Rhodes, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in
physics; transition metal oxides,, layered molecular crystals and trapped-ion arrays are a few …

Topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted α-MoO3 bilayers

G Hu, Q Ou, G Si, Y Wu, J Wu, Z Dai, A Krasnok… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials exhibit many exotic electronic phenomena.
Manipulating the 'twist angle'between the two layers enables fine control of the electronic …

Robotic four-dimensional pixel assembly of van der Waals solids

AJ Mannix, A Ye, SH Sung, A Ray, F Mujid… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Van der Waals (vdW) solids can be engineered with atomically precise vertical composition
through the assembly of layered two-dimensional materials,. However, the artisanal …